Decline and prospects of the English-speaking communities of Quebec / : Déclin des enjeux des communautés de langue anglaise au Québec

The combined efforts to maintain and develop the vitality of 22 Decline and Prospects of the English-Speaking Communities… the Francophone communities outside Quebec and of the Anglophone minority within Quebec, contribute to the linguistic and cultural diversity of Canadian and Québécois societies. [...] The editor and chapter contributors wish to thank in particular the following: Bill Floch of the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canadian Institute for Research on Linguistic Minorities (CIRLM), the Quebec Community Group’s Network (QCGN), the dedicated staff of the Centre d’études ethniques des universités montréalaises (CEETUM) at the Université de Montréal, and Rana Sioufi and Shaha El-Gel [...] The higher the proportion of the group members in a given regional population, the stronger are the networks of linguistic contacts and the more likely the minority language will be used for intra-group communication in private and semi-public situations. [...] Thus informal support represents the community organizations and their mobilization to achieve better institutional support for the minority language group in domains including: the development of minority cultural and artistic production and diffu- sion; more teaching of the minority language in primary and second- ary schools; the provision of health care in the minority language; the hiring of [...] By shifting the territorial base of Francophones from the province of Quebec to Canada as a whole, and then to the North American continent, the endangered minority position of Quebec Francophones is highlighted, with the effect of minimizing the vitality position of the Francophone majority in Quebec.